Files and links (1)
Published (Version of record)CC BY V4.0, Open
Journal article
An Evaluation of the Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers
Stigma and health, Vol.First online, pp.1-14
03/03/2025
Appears in Recent Faculty of Health Publications
Metrics
3 Record Views
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This output has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
Source: InCites
Abstract
Health workers hold stigmatizing attitudes toward people with mental distress, and contact-based interventions have been developed to address these attitudes. However, measures used to evaluate interventions have mixed validity support, including measures developed with service user involvement. The present study intended to provide a psychometric examination of one such measure, the 15-item Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers (Kassam et al., 2012; Modgill et al., 2014). With 286 health worker participants from a paid academic survey platform, including 19 retest samples, the focus was on addressing methodological limitations of previous psychometric evaluations. Current data demonstrated mixed fit to the known correlated three-factor structure (standardized root-mean-square residual [SRMR] = .057, root-mean-square error of approximation [RMSEA] = .054, comparative fit index = .754, Tucker-Lewis fit index = .897) and poor fit with the unidimensional model (SRMR = .080, RMSEA = .084, comparative fit index = .418, Tucker-Lewis fit index = .755). Data fitting to the bifactor solution (a structure comprising a general factor and three lower order factors) was attempted but did not converge. Scores had strong internal consistency (omega(t) = .73-.86), very weak test-retest reliability (r = -.46 to .21), and weak to moderate albeit statistically significant support for the interrelationship between the factors (r(s) = .32-.55). There is some evidence to consider the 15-item Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers as a viable measure of stigmatizing attitudes. However, further robust and transparent evaluations are still needed to surface better validity support.
Details
- Title
- An Evaluation of the Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers
- Creators
- Esario IV Daguman - Southern Cross UniversityJoanne E. Taylor - Massey University
- Publication Details
- Stigma and health, Vol.First online, pp.1-14
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Grant note
- Post-Graduate Research Fund in the School of Psychology at Massey University
This work was supported by the Post-Graduate Research Fund in the School of Psychology at Massey University. The authors acknowledge all the health worker survey participants of the study.
- Identifiers
- 991013303928502368
- Copyright
- © 2025 The Author(s).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article